If your non-Windows computer has an open serial port and you can configure the system to print to a serial printer on that port you could catch the serial output on a Windows machine with a serial port and some software provided you can figure out the proper cross-over cable configuration. I did this years ago to a modified cassette recorder before the IBM PC established a hardware standard.
It seems it should be possible to write a program to cause a Windows machine to emulate a printer that writes directly to a file. If someone has written one that should be a good way to go provided the non-Windows system can be convinced to write to another printer. Have fun! Joe On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:04 PM, Michael Madigan wrote: > >Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:04:45 -0700 (PDT) >From: Michael Madigan >To: [email protected] >cc: >Subject: [NF] is it possible to capture output to printer on a network. > >we have a difficult situation. > >The only way we have of taking data from one system to another is to print >reports to a printer, scan them, and import them into a new system. There are >a 100,000 + records. > >We have no access to any of the setup or controls of the printing computer and >the computer is not a windows system. We have no access to the database. > >Is there a way to capture the data between the network cable and the network >printer with some black box or laptop or something? In other words I want to >emulate a laser printer with a black box and capture the output to a print >file, then I can convert that to plain text. I want the computer to think >it's printing to a physical printer instead of a black box. > >Any ideas? > [excessive quoting removed by server]
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